{"id":152831,"date":"2022-12-14T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/neuroscientists-have-created-a-mood-decoder-that-can-measure-depression"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:23:26","slug":"neuroscientists-have-created-a-mood-decoder-that-can-measure-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/neuroscientists-have-created-a-mood-decoder-that-can-measure-depression","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists have created a mood decoder that can measure depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientists-have-created-a-mood-decoder-that-can-measure-depression.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers implanted 14 electrodes into the brains of volunteers with depression. One says it saved his life.<\/p>\n<p>John\u2019s life changed forever when he broke up with his girlfriend. The breakup sent him into a downward spiral, and led to his first depressive episode when he was 27 years old. \u201cAt first it\u2019s just extreme sadness\u2026 then you start losing sleep,\u201d says John (not his real name), who spoke on condition of anonymity. He developed crippling anxiety and experienced panic attacks and dark thoughts that eventually led him to attempt to end his own life.<\/p>\n<p>Drugs didn\u2019t work for John\u2014he says he has tried pretty much every antidepressant, antipsychotic, and sedative out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers implanted 14 electrodes into the brains of volunteers with depression. One says it saved his life. John\u2019s life changed forever when he broke up with his girlfriend. The breakup sent him into a downward spiral, and led to his first depressive episode when he was 27 years old. \u201cAt first it\u2019s just extreme sadness\u2026 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}